If you, not just you in this room tonight, but in all the thousands of other rooms like this one about the world today and tomorrow and next week, will do this, not as a class or classes, but as individuals, men and women, you will change the earth.
WILLIAM FAULKNERPeople to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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You can’t beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don’t even try to.
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There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn’t fool with booze until he’s fifty; then he’s a damn fool if he doesn’t.
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Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain’t got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.
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Truth; that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on the other white is white, has now become an angle, a point of view.
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A fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he’s already got. He’ll cling to trouble he’s used to before he’ll risk a change.
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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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If we in America have reached that point in our desperate culture when we must murder children, no matter for what reason or what color, we don’t deserve to survive, and probably won’t.
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I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o’clock every day.
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Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
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